It’s been four years since communities in Nepal were devastated by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake. The disaster—which was followed by a series of powerful aftershocks—claimed nearly 9,000 lives and...
Flooding has forced an estimated 483,000 from their homes in Mozambique—which suffered its worst humanitarian crisis in decades when Cyclone Idai made landfall March 14-15. Search and rescue efforts...
INTRODUCTION The Rohingya refugee response in Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh, is unique not only in terms of the rapidity and scale of the 2017 influx, but also in the extent of exposure of the refugee...
February 18, 2019 Since August, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) has been facing the worst Ebola outbreak in its history. Violence and armed conflict in the region have made outbreak...
By: Nicole Watkins, American Red Cross As winter settles in to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), migrant families are struggling to stay warm. The global Red Cross Red Crescent network has mobilized its...
As wind and rain lash Thailand, Thai Red Cross is stepping up its response to Tropical Storm Pabuk. The storm—Thailand’s worst in decades—made landfall the evening of January 4. Over two days, 16...
Video:Vaccines Save Lives: Traversing Kenya to Keep Kids Healthy Each year in Kenya, more than 350,000 children miss their scheduled routine vaccinations. This omission leaves kids vulnerable to...
Torrential rains have been falling in Nigeria since July—causing two major bodies of water, the Niger River and Benue River, to overflow. The flooding has taken lives, damaged infrastructure, and...
Five years ago today, one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the Philippines made landfall. Typhoon Haiyan took more than 6,000 lives on the island nation—destroying homes, bridges, schools,...
Typhoon Yutu destroyed home after home on the Northern Mariana Islands last week, leaving people without power, water and other basic necessities in heat that feels like it’s more than 100 degrees...